The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1887-02-24
Report of the House Committee on Pensions il
Favor OF Overriding the Presidents Veto.

Report Of the House Committee on Pensions in
Favor of Overriding the Presidents Veto.
The report was a unanimous one. Five
members of the committee were selected as
a subcommittee to draft the report. These
five members divided the presidents mes
sage into five separate chapters and each one
prepared au answer to each chapter Then
the contributions of the five members were
arranged in "a harmonious whole. The re-
port statesi
Two facts will arrest the attention Of any one
who reads the presidents message. The first is
that no objection Ia mad. to The bill on any
ground of it's cons itu tiouality and the right OF
congress to enact the law is not questioned.
The other Is that the first section of the bill is
not touched upon by the message and no intima-
ton is given by the president as to whether that
an independent proposition. and in the pre-
else form specially urged. by the secretary
report meets with his approval or dsapprova .
The committee then analvz yes the objections Of
the president that the bill is in its pr5vi-
sion. n that 1t might apply to various grad S OF
disability or dependency, and submits to the
Judgment of the house and country that those
who framed the bill after months of careful con-
sideration 6 have made De, no mistake, ant. and
can be well defined as consisting OF
those totally disabled or dependent on
| their daily labor 60. support I'VE regret the
message excuse rather than reason fol
| returning it to the house aud believe do nc
injustice to the executive when consid sring the
syhole message, to say that if its provisions had
raised raise p'' as '' to- whether it includsd
only those unable to labor he would
| The acts of the president the committee cannot
| believe viii be endorsed anywhere by the patEi-
otto sentiment OF this country Referring to
the expenditures OF money which the enact
| nf this bill the Law W0uid neCpSSltate
| the committee contends that the estimate OF
| the president Ia eatravagant, but says that nc
come between dependent soldiers and the relief
| they are entitled to receive from the country
| which they helped to save. Reducing the whole
question to ole Of money expediency 1t seemed
| ury can lie best restored to the people In the
manner proposed in the bill. No bonded inter
psf or huge monopoly could claim the money
for It's own. It would go to the people in small
amounts aud would circulate among them. Tht
| bill had been asked for on every
hand. Protests against it., had only
| that did not turn their mill was considered a:
! worse than wasted The committee submit et
| that the general tone OF the message was to b.
fairly taken as expressive in advance Of th'
| presidents purpose to use the executive powe
to prevent any further legislation that woult
| add any new class to the pension list or materi
fat that that the country was agains
| It, The committee was aware that there
| sentiment Of that kind but insisted tina
it was not o controlling one. The committee
| was 10th to believe that the people Of the coun
try were wiling fsr the defenders Of the nation
honor and live to live during tnsif declining
years in misery and want. On the contrary i
believed that the people wonld prefer that thos
| who made the laws should err On the side o
| mercy rather THAI on the side Of too rieit
economy in the expenditures of the pubi
n saas ana or even I
erent kind of taxes was necessary. t.
meet this, demand they would be cheer
to these views OF our duties as legislators, ant
with cheerful Willingness to answer here ant
| elsewhere the results of honest labors to re
lieve the INDECENT soldiers Of comma,
country, in any section Of 1t, coming as they d
from many wars in which we have been engaged
| and WITH eyerv confidence OF a right verdic
MON the whole Datter, we submit Our bill agai
for the Judgment OF the house, and ask for !
the most rigid criticism, believing it will ten
to strengthen. rather than to weaken It w
recommend, without dissenting voice in thi
| committee that the bill do pass, notwithstand
ing the objections Of the president.